Is the number of previous hospitalizations associated with increased in-hospital mortality after hip fracture in a developing country?

<h4>Purpose</h4>We aimed to examine whether the number of previous hospitalizations and the main diagnoses of those hospitalizations are associated with increased in-hospital hip fracture mortality for older people. That assessment is relevant because if those variables are shown to be a...

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Main Authors: Helen Regina Mota Machareth de Morais, Edison Iglesias de Oliveira Vidal, Claudia Medina Coeli, Rejane Sobrino Pinheiro
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0240229